Professor Denise Comer Teaching, like writing, is a collaborative process The ideas you see in this course bear the influence of many past and current colleagues, as well as the many gifted scholars in writing studies who publish their arguments and ideas I am especially grateful to faculty at the University of South Carolina Department of English 1995-2000, faculty at Chico State University Department of English, 1998-99, and faculty in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, 2000-2013 Wherever I have drawn more specifically from a colleague or text, I have done my best to acknowledge it directly If you see an acknowledgement I may have inadvertently overlooked, please post it to the “Class Materials” forum so I can review it and, if needed, make the correction Some of the specific strategies for actively reading Coyle emerge from the influence of Kenneth Burke, and from the following articles, provided to me by my friend and colleague, Parag Budhecha: Carroll, Laura B (2010) Backpacks vs Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis Available from Writing Spaces: http://writingspaces.org/essays Booth, Wayne C (2004) The Rhetoric of Rhetorics: The Quest for Effective Communication, Oxford: Backwell Publishing McInelly, Brett C., and Dennis R Perry (2008) Writing and Rhetoric Plymouth, MI: Hayden McNeil